Originally Posted by
OlongJohnson
You're wrong. I couldn't be confusing them, because I didn't know Metabo Germany was a thing. First I saw the name was when it was applied to Hitachis.
So is there a parallel existence, where the German company carries on doing German stuff in Germany for the EU market, while being owned by Hitachi and having its name applied in a sort of licensing agreement to the parent company in the rest of the world to essentially the same Hitachi tools that used to be Hitachis?